Questions for today:
In our pursuit of understanding how the world emanates from the Creator’s name, how would the infinite, and finite, come into being?
We are explaining how this physical world is formulated by the expansive letter Hey of the Creator's name, similar to the way speech expresses what's hidden inside.
But wouldn't the supernal worlds also have that type of speech-expressiveness?
There's a lesson in the talmud that takes two seemingly contradictory verses; one which says that there are 'infinite' worlds, and one says there are 'thousands'.
The Talmud explains that there are infinite levels, in each level there are thousands of worlds.
How does that fit with the rule that you can't have an infinite number of finite things? [if you would double an infinite measurement you can't have 'two infinite'. Similarly, you can’t have an infinite of ones or twos]
However, speech is both; an expression from the soul, and substantive words.
The supernal worlds are expressions of the 'soulful' aspect of speech and they can be infinite. This physical world is an expression of the 'substantive' aspects of speech.
This is similar to how in kohelet it uses the word 'hevel' which is normally understood as 'nothingness' but it also means 'breath' of speech.
234 14 Tanya Menachem Av 16 ~ m259 11 Menachem Av 17
Tanya book 4, Essay 5, pt4
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